WRO RES program A four-week residency program at WRO Art Center for artists / curators / art mediators based in Austria The WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw and the Artist-in-Residence Programme AiR Wro launches an open call for one artist-in-residence position at WRO Art Center, […]

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the ‘KW Production Series’, a new commissioning project dedicated to artists’ moving image. In collaboration with the Julia Stoschek Collection and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland, KW will concentrate on two new productions per year. Artists Jamie Crewe and Beatrice Gibson will inaugurate this series. The project takes inspiration […]

C/O Berlin presents the exhibition Hans Hansen . Still Life from 13th July to 10th Sep- tember, 2017. The opening will be on Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 at 7 pm in the Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22–24, 10623 Berlin. A VW Golf, built in 1988, neatly dismantled into around 7,000 pieces, graphically arranged glass blocks, the […]

The Center of Photography Geneva, 2.6.-20.8.2017 Curated by Reinhard Braun and Joerg Bader In her new work, “The Jerusalem Experience,” Efrat Shvily, in collaboration with Oren Myers, is looking at ways in which historic Jerusalem is being made into an “experience” with the help of advanced technology, for the benefit of its visitors but no […]

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and Valiz, Amsterdam are proud to announce the release of Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice). To mark the launch of the publication, the symposium “Once We Were Artists” takes place on Saturday 24 June 2017 from 10.30 till 18.00 hrs […]

+++ Deadline extended to 3 July +++ The 10th edition of Renaissance Photography Prize is now open for entries. The annual prize discovers talent and celebrates the best in photography, giving image makers access to new opportunities and a worldwide audience for their work. With judges from The Photographers’ Gallery, Foam, the Guardian, and more, […]

Dutch photographer DANA LIXENBERG has won the twentieth edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, for her multifaceted portrait of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. She was announced as the 2017 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize by broadcaster and writer, Ekow Eshun, at a special […]

Kunstraum Lakeside, May 12 to July 14 This exhibition encompasses the most significant body of works by the Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid developed over 35 years. Highly performative in the sense of producing the specific impact in current socio-political reality, their mode of production is prompted by a sharp and accurate sense […]

The Centre Pompidou is delighted to announce the appointment of Florian Ebner as head of the Photography Department at the Musée National d’Art Moderne. The appointment becomes effective on 1 July 2017. Florian Ebner has worked for 25 years in photography and contemporary art. He was in charge of the photography department at the Folkwang […]

The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which has been funded since its fourth edition by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) as an “outstanding cultural event,” is delighted to announce Gabi Ngcobo as the curator of the upcoming 10th Berlin Biennale. Since the early 2000s Gabi Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, […]

www.belgianpavilion.be Dirk Braeckman: “Participating in the Venice Biennale feels like a victory for Belgian photography, which has never had a broad international platform within the visual arts. Nowadays, everyone is capable of taking good photographs and people are only really interested in the end results. I oppose this trend by emphasizing a process-centred exploration. My […]

The search for a new artistic director for the Grazer Kunstverein attracted the large amount of 111 applicants from home and abroad. It was a difficult task for the jury to draw a pre-selection from the variety of high-quality applications. Out of the candidates that were interviewed, the new artistic director was selected: Irish curator, […]

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is glad to announce the appointment of Krist Gruijthuijsen as its new director. Gruijthuijsen was selected from a group of invited candidates. The selection committee’s decision was unanimous. From July 1, 2016, he will take over the running of KW in Berlin, beginning his exhibition and event program in fall […]

Dean Thomas Lawson is pleased to announce that photographer/filmmaker Sharon Lockhart and artist/writer Ines Schaber have been appointed to the faculty of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Lockhart will begin teaching in the Institute’s Photography and Media program in fall 2015, with Schaber joining the program in spring 2016. CalArts’ […]

Awards

Dutch photographer DANA LIXENBERG has won the twentieth edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, for her multifaceted portrait of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. She was announced as the 2017 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize by broadcaster and writer, Ekow Eshun, at a special […]

Since its conception in 1950, this prestigious award has been given to only two female artists (Brigitte Kowanz (2009); Maria Lassnig (1988)), making Bertlmann the third in its history. The Grand Austrian State Prize (German: Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis) is presented by the Minister of Culture on behalf of the Republic of Austria, to an individual […]

MMK 3, Frankfurt, 29 June –17 September 2017 Starting in June, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main will present the works of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize finalists for the second time. The 2017 selection not only pays tribute to established photographic narratives but also honours experimental and conceptual approaches in documentary, […]

The Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018 Jury selected Peter Puklus with the project “The Hero Mother – How to build a house”. The Jury was unanimous in selecting Peter Puklus for the Grand Prix 2017/18, for a truly original and intriguing proposal that draws universal issues of family and the performance of parental roles into […]

This year’s shortlist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 celebrates established photographic narratives alongside experimental and conceptual approaches to documentary, landscape and portraiture. All of this year’s nominated artists investigate questions of truth and fiction, doubt and certainty, what constitutes the real and ideal and the relationship between the observer and the observed. […]

2016—Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 edition of the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. The Awards this year have been organized in collaboration with C/O Berlin, a Berlin-based charitable institution committed to photography and visual media. Libyan Sugar by Michael Christopher Brown (Twin Palms) is the winner […]

Centre Pompidou, Paris, 12. 10. 2016 – 30. 1. 2017 For the very first time, the Centre Pompidou is showing all of this year’s four Prix Marcel Duchamp finalists: Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Ulla von Brandenburg and Barthélémy Toguo. With this group exhibition the ADIAF and the Centre Pompidou bring a new dimension to the […]

The Akademie der Künste is awarding the 2016 Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Edmund Kuppel in honour of his pioneering work on the relationship between photography and sculpture. His extensive oeuvre explores the processes of creation in photography, the technical conditions, and how photography is perceived. To mark the occasion of this award, the Academy is […]

Calls

WRO RES program A four-week residency program at WRO Art Center for artists / curators / art mediators based in Austria The WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw and the Artist-in-Residence Programme AiR Wro launches an open call for one artist-in-residence position at WRO Art Center, […]

+++ Deadline extended to 3 July +++ The 10th edition of Renaissance Photography Prize is now open for entries. The annual prize discovers talent and celebrates the best in photography, giving image makers access to new opportunities and a worldwide audience for their work. With judges from The Photographers’ Gallery, Foam, the Guardian, and more, […]

International conference BEYOND THE DOCUMENTARY We invite all researchers, academics, artists, photographers and others to submit their presentation proposals for the international conference BEYOND THE DOCUMENTARY as a part of the discursive program of the 9th Organ Vida International Photography festival from Croatia. We are interested in expanded exposition forms, research, artworks, reviews, and presentations. […]

+++ deadline extended till April 10 +++ In the framework of the photography festival Organ Vida, Zagreb. You can submit your work by filling out the application form. Open Call fee is 30 €. Please, read the Open Call essay written by artist Katrin Koenning before submitting your work! application deadline: April 1, 2017 NEW CITIZENS Right now, no […]

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Please send your submission to residency@kunstverein-extra.com until February 19, 2017 Kunstverein EXTRA is pleased to announce in cooperation with Antonia Rahofer a call for applications for four artist residencies for the first half of 2017. The program provides a total of 2 x 2 funded residencies from April to May and from June to July. The capital […]

Application deadline: January 25, 2017 The home of the Helsinki School and the Helsinki Photomedia international research conference. Aalto University, located in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland, provides world-class education in the fields of art, technology and business. At the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, theory meets practice. The school focuses on learning […]

Seeking young emerging photographers and art critics After 10 successful years in existence, the C/O Berlin Talents program for emerging photographers and art critics is being restructured. In the future, an international jury will choose the recipient of the Talent of the Year award on an annual basis, thus highlighting one selected artistic position per […]

Deadline for applications: 1 February, 2017 The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, in conjunction with LUX (London) and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), introduced a new programme segment in 2014 which will be held for the fourht time during the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (11 to 16 May, 2017). The Seminar […]

Discover your #showOFFpower and be part of Krakow Photomonth Festival! Selections are underway for the ninth edition of the ShowOFF Section of Krakow Photomonth 2017 – a competition geared toward debut artists. Submissions can be made from December 1, 2016 until January 15, 2017. Every year, ShowOFF becomes increasingly visible in the international arena. The […]

Application deadline: February 28, 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK The Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, announces the opening of its new MA in Artists’ Film; a 12 month, intensively taught programme designed for artist filmmakers who want to develop their practice and their professional networks to […]

Krist Gruijthuijsen to become director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin

Infos

Gruijthuijsen was selected from a group of invited candidates. The selection committee’s decision was unanimous. From July 1, 2016, he will take over the running of KW in Berlin, beginning his exhibition and event program in fall 2016, after the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

This appointment will be accompanied by a restructuring of KW. On the basis of an amendment to its statutes, KW will be represented by Krist Gruijthuijsen as director; Gabriele Horn, previously director of both KW and the Berlin Biennale, will continue to run the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The two directors will be supported by an administrative manager. KW will continue to be the responsible body and main location for the Berlin Biennale, which is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) as a cultural institution of excellence. This statutory reform has been made possible to a large degree by financial support from the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.

Krist Gruijthuijsen (born 1980) is a curator and art critic from the Netherlands. He has good international contacts and long years of experience as a curator, as well as editing numerous publications and directing leading international institutions for contemporary art. He is moving to Berlin after four years as artistic director of Grazer Kunstverein. During that time, he was also course leader in the department of fine art at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. He co-founded Amsterdam’s Kunstverein, of which he acted as director from 2009 to 2012, and he was a consultant to Manifesta 7. Among others, he has curated projects for Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, BE; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Artists Space, New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Chairman Olafur Eliasson: “As the board, we are glad that an increase in our subsidy from the Senate Chancellery has enabled us to create a solid basis for the restructuring of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. As reflected in the selection committee’s unanimous decision, we are confident that Krist Gruijthuijsen is eminently qualified for this post and that he will be highly motivated. Krist is an independent and creative thinker, and an experienced exhibition maker with excellent connections to artists and colleagues of different generations, who was nominated multiple times. The board sought sound advice and collegial support through its international network of experts, who assisted the selection procedure with their recommendations; their professional bond with KW enriched the process and rendered it productive. We are extraordinarily happy to have succeeded in creating conditions under which we can now enter a new era at KW with Krist Gruijthuijsen as artistic director.”

Krist Gruijthuijsen takes over programming from Ellen Blumenstein, who has been chief curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art since January 2013. With her commitment to discursive formats, Blumenstein helped improve the institution’s networking at local and international levels. Her programmatic focus on themed exhibitions like FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE, that reflected on the ambivalence of violence with the means of art, considerably raised the public profile of KW, as well as its visitor numbers. Blumenstein presented the first institutional solo shows of Kader Attia, Ryan Trecartin, and Kate Cooper in Germany and brought the first major retrospective of Californian artist Channa Horwitz, COUNTING IN EIGHT, MOVING BY COLOR, to KW, that will be on show from March 10, 2016, at Raven Row in London. In September 2016, a second, fully reworked version of FIRE AND FORGET opens at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, DE, under the title UNTER WAFFEN. FIRE AND FORGET 2.